The doctor uses the skin of the women to perform plastic surgery on his disfigured sister, but the experiments leave the victims mutilated and dead. CAPTION. Directed by Georges Franju. Dr. Génessier promises to restore Christiane's face and insists that she wear a mask to cover her disfigurement. Share URL. The film has influenced a number of European films since its release. A horror film in its own right, it further underscores Franju’s interest in transmuting the horrors of the 20th century into art. 16 hours ago. The black and whites are crisp and clear. "[23] The review said there was "a strange and poetic opening" and Schuftan's "haunting camerawork allies itself perfectly to Maurice Jarre's obsessive score" while" Brasseur and Valli were "sadly wasted" and that they "do what they can with almost non-existent characters". After being declared healthy, Paulette leaves for Paris and is promptly picked up by Louise, who delivers her to Dr. Génessier. Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Following Christiane's funeral, Dr. Génessier and his assistant Louise, the woman who had disposed of the dead body earlier, return home where the real Christiane is hidden (it's explained that Louise is deathlessly loyal to Génessier because he repaired her own badly damaged face, leaving only a barely noticeable scar she covers with a pearl choker). Report Save. Mad Scientist. Dr. Génessier performs heterograft surgery, removing Edna's face. It's horror in homeopathic doses. In the opening scenes, the camera reveals a working class neighborhood slowing waking up to begin its day, but then takes us into the depths of the industrial abattoir. [41] The disc also included Franju's documentary Blood of the Beasts. McGrath beautifully reads the mise-en-scène while Kalat explains the history of the films production and its subsequent fate. With the renewed interest, the film's critical reputation began to be re-evaluated. Report. [15] Edits in the Dr. Faustus version removed parts of the heterografting scene as well as scenes showing Doctor Génessier's more human side, such as his loving care for a small child at his clinic. [42], 1960 film by Claude Sautet, Georges Franju, This article is about the 1960 film. Its accompanied by a score as creepy and borderline psychotic as anything Bernard Herrmann ever composed. Génessier chloroforms Edna and takes her into his secret laboratory. Her face grows worse within days; the new tissue is being rejected and she must resort to wearing her mask again. "[35], DVD film reviews have suggested the film influenced director John Woo; critics have compared the graphic detail of the face transplant scene in Woo's action film Face/Off (1997) to the face transplant scene in Eyes Without a Face. [41] In 2013, the Criterion Collection released the film on Blu-ray, this time transferred directly from the camera negative. While the doctor talks with the police, Christiane, who has long been disenchanted with her father's experiments, while slowly losing her sanity from guilt and isolation, frees Paulette and murders Louise by stabbing her in the neck. [18], The film was re-released in its original and uncut form to American theaters on October 31, 2003. Although the disc does not contain anything like a traditional “Making Of” featurette, this edition of Eyes Without a Face includes a booklet containing essays by novelist Patrick McGrath and film historian David Kalat. Impossible to say the line "I'm on a bus on a psychedelic trip, reading murder books tryin' to stay hip.." without his Elvis snarl face creeping in. spooky. [18][19][20] Franju responded to these comments claiming the film was his attempt to get the minor genre to be taken seriously. After the body is recovered, Dr. Génessier identifies the remains as those of his missing daughter, Christiane Génessier, whose face was horribly disfigured in an automobile accident that occurred before her disappearance, for which he was responsible. In 2001, on VH1 Storytellers,[38] singer Billy Idol cited the film as giving him the idea for his song "Eyes Without a Face." level 1. By Lee Pfeiffer. This shocking film, frankly fairly sickening even today, takes a documentarians camera into a Paris slaughterhouse. [39][40] A Region 4 edition of the film was released on July 2, 2007 by Umbrella Entertainment. As a picture of the era, the film stands apart from its cinematic … Eyes Without A Face. With Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault. Scob describes some of the difficulties of her role, most of which she performed behind an unforgettable macabre mask. Eyes Without a Face. Disturbing enough on its own, Franju intercut scenes of animal cruelty with images of children playing. We learn, for example, that before receiving much deserved critical acclaim, Eyes Without a Face appeared in the United States on the drive-in circuit, dubbed into English with the title changed to The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus. [20] In England, Isabel Quigly, film critic for The Spectator, called it "the sickest film since I started film criticism",[21] while a reviewer who admitted that she liked the film was nearly fired. With theaters offering no new genre films this weekend, The Cinefantastique Podcast turns its gaze back through the mists of time to a 50th anniversary examination of Eyes Without a Face… Franju filmed Eyes Without a Face with a startlingly starkness. French New Wave. [12][24] The reviewers commented on the film's poetic nature and noted the strong influence of French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Today on Dangerous Minds I present to you two of my favorite things; a vintage, upper-tier European horror film paired with the punk rock icon Billy Idol. The brutal element in Eyes Without a Face noted above, however, doesn’t reach the level found in Franju’s 1949 short subject, the famous “Blood of the Beasts”, which is included as an extra with this set. [6] This was in contrast to the presentation of the secondary feature, The Manster (1962), which mainly focused on the carny-show aspect with its "two-headed monster" and "Invasion from outer space by two-headed creature killer". 60s. "Is Eyes without a Face" French new wave? The song, which has the film's original French title ("Les Yeux Sans Visage") as the recurring background chorus, takes the father-daughter relationship from the film and recasts it as the deteriorated relationship between the narrator and his lover. [6] French composer Maurice Jarre created the haunting score for the film. Graveyards, forests and even interiors have an emptiness about them that reads … [8] Film historian David Kalat called Shüfftan "the ideal choice to illustrate Franju's nightmares". The audio in particular has been given a good scrubbing and cleaning up, likely making for the highest quality print of Franju’s masterpiece we are likely to get. It was originally written the way you see it, in other words, it's a pale mask with human features, almost featureless. Once seen, never forgotten, "Eyes Without a Face" is a film ... the slaughterhouse-themed “La Sange des Betes,” that earned him the respect of the younger filmmakers of the French New Wave. During the film's production, consideration was given to the standards of European censors by setting the right tone, minimizing gore and eliminating the mad scientist character. Landscape through innocent eyes: French New Wave cinema reasserted through Post-Colonial Film ... For example, at 25.31 the camera focuses on the young boy’s face, before panning across to his sister as she scans the horizon to search for water. Eyes Without a Face was released on VHS on January 9, 2001 by Kino Video and on DVD on October 19, 2004 by the Criterion Collection. Billy was an accessible, low-key punk, he wanted to dance in combat boots but not necessarily beat your face in. New RT Podcast; News; ... and "Eyes Without a Face" (1959). I don't know why I wrote that down, why Debra [Hill] and I decided on that, maybe it was because of an old movie called Eyes Without a Face. To him, the terrors of reality provided enough nightmare fuel. Reply. The police have gained a lead concerning a woman who wears a pearl choker, whom Jacques recognizes as Louise. Aided by his loyal assistant Alida Valli (The Third Man, Suspiria), who lures young women to his secluded chateau in pursuit of his dark quest. [6] A Region 2 release of Eyes Without a Face was released April 21, 2008 by Second Sight Films. Few of the leading French movie directors supported the French New Wave at its inception. [6] During the film's showing at the 1960 Edinburgh Film Festival, seven audience members fainted, to which director Franju responded, "Now I know why Scotsmen wear skirts. The film in question, Les Yeux Sans Visage ( Eyes Without a Face) is quite horrifying, though its director George Franju (the co-founder of Cinémathèque Française, … At the time, modern horror films had not been attempted by French film makers until producer Jules Borkon decided to tap into the horror market. 1960. Carpenter recalls that the film crew "didn't have any money to make a mask. It’s a harsh and ugly reality that still somehow leaves you with a wispy, dreamy feeling, a feeling that echoes the final shot of poor, ruined Christiane wandering into the dark heart of the forest. [7] The writers shifted the novel's focus from Doctor Génessier's character to that of his daughter, Christiane; this shift revealed the doctor's character in a more positive and understandable light and helped to avoid the censorship restrictions. New litter of French Bulldog puppies ! Borkon bought the rights to the Redon novel and offered the directorial role to one of the founders of Cinémathèque Française, Franju, who was directing his first non-documentary feature La Tête contre les murs (1958). Although the film passed through the European censors, the film's release in Europe caused controversy nevertheless. Christiane secretly watches her father and Louise carry Edna to the lab, and then goes to tenderly caress the dogs her father keeps caged, who eagerly accept her love, and are unaffected by her appearance. PopMatters is wholly independent, women-owned and operated. [26] The Encyclopedia of Horror Films agreed with the assertion of Cocteau's influence, stating that "Franju invests [the film] with a weird poetry in which the influence of Cocteau is unmistakable". In an interview for French television included in the extras, Franju claims that he never cared for fairy tales, even the frightening ones, as a child. Copy link to clipboard. Génessier is about to begin surgery on Paulette when Louise informs him that the police want to see him. The film, a French-Italian co-production,[1] stars Pierre Brasseur and Alida Valli. A masterfully macabre tale of tragedy and failure steeped in a noir-horror atmosphere that thrives off of anxiety, vanity, and consequence. After her father leaves the room, Christiane calls her fiancé Jacques Vernon, who works with Dr. Génessier at his clinic, but hangs up without saying a word. Sheet music arranged for Piano/Vocal/Guitar in E Major. 1983. She also frees the dogs and doves that her father uses for experiments. "Billy Idol- Eyes Without a Face (1983) " Is a song by English rock musician Billy Idol, from his second album Rebel Yell (1983). Eyes Without a Face (1960) ... Perhaps the most masterful French director of all time, if ironically one who otherwise has nothing to do with the French New Wave, Jean-Pierre Melville made fantastic movies throughout the 1960s and it is his most experimental piece of work for which he is most widely recognized. Dr. Génessier lives in a large mansion, which is adjacent to his clinic, with numerous caged German Shepherds and other large dogs. horror. Faustus. [6] The distributors recognized the artistic merit of the film and played up that element in promotion with an advertisement quoting the London Observer's positive statements about the film and noting its showing at the Edinburgh Film Festival. The film received an American debut in an edited and dubbed form in 1962 under the title of The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus. Although outside the some of the parameters set by the work by Godard, Truffaut, and Roehmer, the truth is that the new wave tended to emphasize the end to parameters and a happy, deeply self-conscious experimentation with new forms. Not every critic would connect Franju to the new wave, however, despite the contextual connection. [6][18][19] French critics' response to the film was significantly more positive than it was on its original release, with former editor-in-chief of Cahiers du cinéma Serge Daney calling the film "a marvel". The B&W film was notable in its day for being a rare excursion into a genre that most New Wave French filmmakers had studiously avoided. For the Billy Idol song, see, "La Tête Contre les Murs : Production Credits", "Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage)", "Eyes Without a Face Movie Reviews, Pictures", "Eyes Without a Face (re-release) (2003): Reviews", "Mad Scientist Seeks Flesh for Fantasy in French Scare Classic", "Second Sight – Classic Film and TV on DVD", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eyes_Without_a_Face&oldid=1008450619, Articles with dead external links from January 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France, This page was last edited on 23 February 2021, at 10:30. [22] The English Monthly Film Bulletin was of the opinion that "when a director as distinguished as Georges Franju makes a horror film...one cannot but feel tempted to search for symbols, an allegory, layers, or interpretation. First, working with Claude Sautet who was also serving as first assistant director and who laid out the preliminary screenplay, Franju hired the writing team of Boileau-Narcejac (Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac) who had written novels adapted as Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques (1955) and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). With theaters offering no new genre films this weekend, The Cinefantastique Podcast turns its all-seeing gaze back through the mists of time to a 50th anniversary examination of Eyes without a Face, director George Franju's moody masterpiece of art house horror. The song is notable for the female voice of Perri Lister —she appeared in the banned video for " Hot in the City "—who sings "Les yeux sans visage" ( French for "Eyes without a face") as a background chorus. Billy Idol. Feel free to call me Marlen e or text 1-712-592-3525 or even email at bluewavefrenchbulldogs@gmail.com. Unhappily there is practically nothing in this inept work to offer any encouragement for doing so. A film that showed the human form ruined by mad medical experimentation tapped into this deeply felt moral and cultural anxiety. "[7], To avoid problems with European censors, Borkon cautioned Franju not to include too much blood (which would upset French censors), refrain from showing animals getting tortured (which would upset English censors) and leave out mad-scientist characters (which would upset German censors). Spanish director Jesús Franco created films throughout his career that were influenced by the film. Based on the novel of the same name by Jean Redon, it revolves around a plastic surgeon who is determined to perform a face transplant on his daughter, who was disfigured in an auto crash. Eyes Without a Face represents the embodiment of this ethos. Franco's version of the story concerns the efforts of a mad surgeon, Dr. Orloff, to reconstruct the face of his disfigured daughter Melissa. Inspector Parot, an officer investigating Edna's disappearance, hires a young woman named Paulette Mérodon (recently arrested for shoplifting) to help investigate by checking herself into Génessier's clinic. Critical reaction ranged from praise to disgust. Criterion has released a true oddity: a French horror film from 1960 by director Georges Franju titled Eyes Without a Face. Franju’s masterpiece appeared in the heart of the Algerian Revolution (the “Battle of Algiers” had just taken place in 1956). Edna escapes, but falls to her death from an upstairs window. Originally released in 1960, Eyes Without a Face became part of a trio of films that proved incredibly determinative for the themes in horror films for the next 50 years. 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Neither French director Georges Franju nor his movies have received due respect on video, as his marvelous Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage) is still his only B&W movie available in a U.S. edition. Extras also include a recent interview with actor Edith Scob who perfectly portrayed the mad doctor’s daughter and ultimate experiment, Christiane Génessier. [9][36][37] Another resemblance is Woo's use of white doves in his films that is similar to the character Christiane's dove-laden escape in the film's finale.[9]. When you think about the French New Wave, you probably immediately conjure up Godard’s stylish crime thrillers or self-consciously cool explorations of the politics of sex and gender. Eyes Without a Face is the only film Georges Franju is know for in the US - although he had an impressive track record and was an influence on the French New Wave directors. The New Wave critics considered him too old-school even as they worshipped cinema at the institution he co-founded, the Cinémathèque Française. Jason and I take a look at both the French New Wave and the work of Jean-Luc Godard with Breathless (1960), explore a fantastic and somewhat lesser-known horror classic with Eyes Without A Face (1960), and round out the show with an exploration of the Giallo subgenre and the work of Dario Argento with the fiendishly frightening Deep Red (1975). [29] Franco's first such film was the Spanish/French co-production Gritos en la noche (1962). Franju filmed Eyes Without a Face with a startlingly starkness. That may change after you take a look at the Criterion edition of Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face. The terribly spare dialogue even gives it the feeling of a silent film. A deposit of $500 is required to hold a puppy. [10] In the 2010s, Time Out polled authors, directors, actors and critics who had worked in the horror genre to vote for their top horror films. Eyes Without a Face -- 50th Anniversary Special. Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader praised the film, referring to it as "absurd and as beautiful as a fairy tale". [2] Modern critics praise the film for its poetic nature as well as being a notable influence on other filmmakers. Look at these cute baby french bulldogs !!! Plastic Surgery. [33] The British film Corruption (1968), starring Peter Cushing adds a new variation to the theme: a surgeon tries to restore his fiancée's beauty by repeatedly treating her with fluids extracted from the pituitary glands of murdered female victims. The lieutenant's investigation eventually leads him to a plastic surgery clinic, a similar plot motivation to Eyes Without a Face. May change after you take a look at these cute baby French bulldogs!!!!!!!... 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